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  The Queen The Warlord and the...

  Steven A. Preston

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  A queen with a desire and a quench for life. A kingdom each with citizens that have their own agenda. 
  A counselor and consort who is loyal to the point of treason. 
  A warlord determined to control the uncontrollable who has a life-long secret that even He is unaware of. 
  And a mystical food that has the ability to turn back the ravages of time and restore the youth of whoever knows the secret of using it. 
  Enjoy a hundred years of intrigue within this seventeen-minute micro novel. 
  Let it take you back to a simpler time before special effects and when imagination was king.

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  The Middleman - And Other Stories

  Bharati Mukherjee

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  A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times Notable Book: “intelligent, versatile . . . profound” stories of migration in America (The Washington Post Book World).   Illuminating a new world of people in migration that has transformed the essence of America, these collected stories are a dazzling display of the vision of this critically-acclaimed contemporary writer.   An aristocratic Filipina negotiates a new life for herself with an Atlanta investment banker. A Vietnam vet returns to Florida, a place now more foreign than the Asia of his war experience. An Indian widow tries to explain her culture’s traditions of grieving to her well-intentioned friends. And in the title story, an Iraqi Jew whose travels have ended in Queens suddenly finds himself an unwitting guerrilla in a South American jungle.   Passionate, comic, violent, and tender, these stories draw us into a cultural fusion in the midst of its birth pangs, expressing a “consummated romance with the American language” (The New York Times Book Review).

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  Great Stone Face and Other Tales...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains.  Consists of: The Great Stone Face, written in 1850 and revolves around the 'Old Man of the Mountain (Cannon Mtn.) in New Hampshire which sadly collapsed on May 3, 2003; The Ambitious Guest, written in 1835; The Great Carbuncle, written in 1837; and Sketches From Memory, written sometime prior to The Great Carbuncle as will become obvious. (Summary by Roger Melin)

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  Smoked Skipper

  W. W. Jacobs

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  When Ralph, the new cabin boy joins the schooner ship Susan-Jane, which is carrying a cargo of gunpowder, he finds to his surprise that he has not signed up for a life as a swashbuckling pirate.Instead of romance and adventure, he finds himself having to scrub decks and wash dishes. Worse still, any subordinance is punished harshly by the crew and the skipper.Ralph decides to take his revenge on the Skipper and his crew, and devises an ingenious plan...

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  A Tale of Two Cities

  Charles Dickens

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  A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events

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  The Ransom Of Red Chief

  O. Henry

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  "The Ransom of Red Chief" is a short story by O. Henry first published in the July 6, 1907 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It follows two men who kidnap, and demand a ransom for, a wealthy Alabamian's son. Eventually, the men are driven crazy by the boy's spoiled and hyperactive behavior, and they pay the boy's father to take him back.
  The story and its main idea have become a part of popular culture, with many children's television programs depicting versions of the story as one of their episodes. It has also been often used as a classic example of two ultimate comic ironies – a supposed "hostage" actually liking his abductors and enjoying being captured, and his captors getting their just deserts by having the tables turned on them, and being compelled to pay to be rid of him.

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